As I draw near to the end of my book tour in New Zealand where I have been promoting my debut novel 'A Kind of Family', I feel so grateful to have been introduced to someone from the libraries here in Queenstown and Lakes District Council. The contact was made through a wonderful Maori community leader called Darren Rewi, who I met here last year, and from that meeting my presence here in the QLDC district, and in Queenstown in particular, has grown beyond my dreams. Here are some of the things that have happened as a result of that first contact:

*Three author talks in libraries
*Introduction to Maori readers
*Contact with Queenstown Writers group
*Bound Books deciding to stock a few copies of my book
*Book sales
*Donations by me to three libraries, so that people who cannot afford to buy can still read it

This last talk, on Thursday 23 January, is likely to be the best attended, and I am so excited about it, because this is my 'NZ home' library - the place I take my grandson to, and have hung out in on and off since 2011.

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